The problem of the Other — other people, other subjects — has troubled thinkers as far back as Plato. In our contemporary discourse, Jean-Paul Sartre characterizes our relations with the Other in his phenomenological analysis of ontology, Being and Nothingness, as an attempt to constitute me as something impossible: an in-itself-for-itself, God, or rather, “aContinue reading “The Other and Sartre”
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Paris, Texas: Sartre and the Other
The problem of the Other — other people, other subjects — has troubled thinkers as far back as Plato. In our more contemporary discourse, Jean-Paul Sartre characterizes our relations with the Other in his phenomenological analysis of ontology, Being and Nothingness, as an attempt to constitute me as something impossible: an in-itself-for-itself, God, or rather,Continue reading “Paris, Texas: Sartre and the Other”
‘A Formless Thought That Thinks You’: Sartre and the Gaze
In his 1944 play Huis Clos (No Exit), Jean-Paul Sartre wrote one of the most infamous and misunderstood lines of his career: “Hell is — other people!” Perhaps the phrase could be better apprehended as “the gaze of the Other is Hell.” That is to say, in order to comprehend the meaning of this ambiguousContinue reading “‘A Formless Thought That Thinks You’: Sartre and the Gaze”
Letter from the Outside: Edmund
I thought Edmund would lose his mind.
The Spectacle of Ye: Kanye West’s ‘Donda’
Published on passionweiss.com on Sept. 7, 2021. https://www.passionweiss.com/2021/09/07/kanye-west-donda-album-review/
‘A Man’s Gotta Have a Code’: Michael K. Williams and ‘The Wire’
Published on Passion of the Weiss (passionweiss.com) https://www.passionweiss.com/2021/11/01/a-mans-gotta-have-a-code-michael-k-williams-and-the-wire/
“Is it me or society? I can’t tell.”: Memphis Hip-Hop and the Slow Cancelation of the Future
objet petit a: Lacan, David Lynch and The Judas Tree
No one understands the unfathomable quality of desire quite like the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. In fact, desire is the central element of human subjectivity for the discipline of psychoanalysis. “We are subjects that desire things,” the inimitable Youtube theorist, Plastic Pills, concisely put it. And since we desire things outside the purview of subsistence,Continue reading “objet petit a: Lacan, David Lynch and The Judas Tree”
High School Music: Flume, What So Not, Yung Lean
I’m transferring to a university in Boston for the upcoming fall semester. This isn’t meant as a veiled flex by the way, I just wanted to set up some context. That is, I mean to explain this is but one of a few major events in recent years that’s marked ‘the end of an era,’Continue reading “High School Music: Flume, What So Not, Yung Lean”
‘False clarity’: Adorno and Philosophy
Over the last year alone, I have been told philosophy doesn’t matter over a dozen times. Whether from fellow students, other friends or family members, I have been informed that an entire discipline of shaping and discerning the ideas which foundationally provide a coherent understanding of our reality is “common sense,” “uninteresting,” and “stupid.” PhilosophyContinue reading “‘False clarity’: Adorno and Philosophy”
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